Post #254 by knighttof3 on the Non-US Stocks board

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Regarding religion, a relevant point is that taming your passions is not emphasized as much in Abrahamic faiths as it was in the old pagan religions. "Excess in moderation" for Greeks, or controlling the six enemies (desire, anger, greed, obsession, arrogance and envy) in Hinduism and maybe Catholicism. Maybe honored in breach but honored nonetheless.
Whereas Yahweh/God/Allah often shows unbridled violence without remorse. Almost as if strength is better than virtue. Protestants, Jews, Muslims, listening to the Bible or Koran as kids, might have absorbed the same attitude. Plus the dominion over fish and fowls thing in the Bible.

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